I've been hit multiple times by upstream bug 536482 (see URL),and judging by the number of duplicates on that page, so have been a lot of other people.
To spare you some work, get http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gaburici/poppler-0.8.4-1.fc9.src.rpm
poppler-0.8.1-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
poppler 0.8.5 built for devel.
poppler-0.8.1-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update poppler'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7012
poppler-0.8.1-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.